New Delhi: In a shocking incident, a transgender was
allegedly shot at for refusing to have sex to two men, who offered
her a lift in their car in Delhi. Reports inform that the 21-year-old
transgender took the lift from Trilokpuri to the Barapullah road on
Sunday morning.

After realising that she was a transgender, the two men reportedly
allegedly shot her when she

resisted the sexual assault. The duo then threw her from the
moving car, police said. On Monday, one of the two accused was
arrested.

According to a report by Hindustan Times, the incident took place
around 12.38 am on Sunday. The report states that the incident came
to light after the Police received a distress call at Hazrat
Nizamuddin police station reporting that a woman has been shot on the
Barapullah flyover in south Delhi. According to CCTV footage, the
car, in which the woman was shot, was a taxi.

As soon as the incident was reported, a team that rushed to the
spot found that the injured person was taken to AIIMS by locals.
Deputy commissioner of police (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal was quoted
in the report saying that when the Police reached the hospital, they
were told that the transgender had sustained a gunshot wound in her
abdomen.

On Monday, the Police team spotted the car around 9.30 pm at
night. When the driver was asked to stop, he accelerated and hit a
barricade and was later arrested. The man was identified as
24-year-old Sagar Kumar alias Lampak, a resident of Trilokpuri. The
Police also found another countrymade pistol in the car. During
interrogation, Lampak confessed that he had offered a lift to the
transgender. He said while he drove with Kant and the victim to
Barapullah flyover, hey attempted to have sex with the transgender
but she refused. On this, Lampak said he took out a pistol and shot
her. While the Police managed to nab Lampak, the search is on for the
other accused.